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A few months ago, Razvan stepped away from his PR and Issue Manager role and into a new one as our Project Coordinator. That left Dennis working the job alone. Without additional funding, there would be no way for us to hire on someone new to take over Razvan's empty spot.
Today I can finally announce that funding for the new hire has materialized, courtesy of WEKA. I can also publicly welcome Nicholas Wilson to the DLF team. He's been doing part of the job for quite some time on a volunteer basis, reviewing PRs across our repositories. Now that he's getting paid for it, you can feel free to pester him about your most annoying open issues and PRs and we can throw more work at him!
WEKA has also generously agreed to step up their funding for DConf '25. We're facing increased costs across the board and were looking at the real possibility of a significant increase in the registration fee. The additional funding from WEKA allowed us to actually lower the fee to $300 instead.
Additionally, they have taken over a percentage of the funding for the existing sponsored positions which are primarily funded by Symmetry.
We're extremely grateful for the support both Symmetry and WEKA are providing us, and for all of the smaller scale support from all of the donors across PayPal, Open Collective, GitHub, and elsewhere.
(For the record, all four sponsored staff--Razvan, Dennis, Nicholas, and myself--are paid for 20 hours per week. I receive $12,000/yr in sponsored funds and $14,400/yr from the general donor pool. Razvan, Dennis, and Nicholas each receive $25,000/yr in sponsored funds.)
